| Show extermination OF BOERS preacher returned from south africa tells of the war new york janti the right rev L K coppin alio sailed from anis city about a u year ago mo on the nic umbria i to fourteenth episcopal i t i diocese ot tho african M E church in south africa returned by the same ship arriving here yesterday he is from philadelphia and ano was the first birch to tako charge of the diocese which lies south of the amia esi river and comprises two the south african and the transvaal 1 I found plenty of work awaiting me when I 1 got out there he said tho two conferences were out but were not organized and only a start had been made in their development we have between forty and fifty churches established with more than lo 10 traveling ministers we have recently bought a large building in cape town where in february next we will open a school to prepare students for a collegiate course we are also hoping soon to t industrial na schools ts b i we are seriously handicapped in I 1 this project by the unsettled condition of the country on account of the war there seems little hope of tho war closing before long you cannot conceive the condition of affairs over there the boers are gradually being wiped off the earth it is no longer war but a pro acs of slow extermination england wil never listen joany arbitration proposition which means restoration of the republic and the boers will accept no other settlement just as long as they are able to keep up the guerrilla method of warfare they can notwithstanding alio smallness of their numbers keep thousands of soldiers in the field busy watching them and trying to head them off bishop coppin goes from here to philadelphia where he will remain for some two months |
